Mind Readers Dictionary http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com Words for navigating lifes forks Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:27:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en NPC’s: Non-player character, God and lifeline theology http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/npcs/ Philosophizing: Hard because it’s easy http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/philosophizing/ Fallibalism: Every belief is a bet but some bets are better than others http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/fallibalism/ Rung Running: Getting good at distinguishing “within” from “about” in everyday interaction http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/rung-running/ Means and Ends: Opening a can (and can’t) of worms. http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/means-and-ends/ Meta-cons: Righteous indignation as a con about conning http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/meta-cons/ SCIBIT: Building a scientifically coherent integrated bottom-up information theory http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/emergence/scibit/ Seven Wonderings of the Modern World: The human tough judgment calls http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/seven-wonderings-of-the-modern-world-the-human-tough/ Seven Wonderings of the Ancient World: Life’s universal tough judgment calls http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/seven-wonderings-of-the-ancient-world/ Granularity: Think as big as possible but no bigger http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/granularity-think-as-big-as-possible-but-no-bigger/ ACIDs (Ambiguous Cues; Incompatible Dos): What eats at us when something does http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/acids/ Generic Tough Judgment Calls: Why don’t we have names for them? http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/generic-tough-judgment-calls/ Conventional wisdom: In times like these we need more of what specifically? http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/conventional-wisdom-in-times-like-these-we-need-more-of-what-specifically/ Exaptation: The loose link between representation and function http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/exaptation/ Floating for-ness: Under a firm mantle of function, molten motives churn. http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/floating-for-ness/ Zipslide Errors: Confusing the nature of past and future http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/zipslide-errors/ Brain Velcro: Why good things happen to bad ideas http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/brain-velcro-why-good-things-happen-to-bad-ideas/ Self-efficacy: How supply permits demand http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/self-efficacy-how-supply-permits-demand/ Prevenge: “I’m like rubber; you’re like screwed.” http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/prevenge-im-like-rubber-youre-like-screwed/ Butterfly punch: Shaming your opponent into putting on kid gloves before you knock him out. http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/butterfly-punch/ Turing’s Blurring Anxiety (TBA): Forgiving dead jerks but not live ones. http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/turings-blurring-anxiety/ Guesswork: Enough is enough, but how much is enough? http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/guesswork-enough-is-enough-but-how-much-is-enough/ Deduction: The dream and nightmare of absolute certainty http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/deduction-the-dream-and-nightmare-of-absolute-certainty/ The Free Willies: Are computers like humans? Are humans like computers? http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/the-free-willies-are-computers-like-humans-are-humans-like-computers/ Cause and Effect: Not black and white, but read all over as if it were http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/doubt/cause-and-effect/